Senior Software Engineer

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead our Engineering Productivity initiatives and drive our quality automation strategy. In this role, you'll design sophisticated test frameworks and quality solutions that ensure exceptional reliability for products used by over 38 million developers globally.

As a senior member of our engineering team, you'll provide technical leadership while collaborating with top-tier engineers from premier institutions across India and the US. This position offers substantial impact on our engineering culture and product quality standards, with clear pathways to technical leadership and architectural decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and lead the development of enterprise-grade test automation frameworks and tools that support our CI/CD pipeline

• Provide technical leadership in designing comprehensive test strategies that address functional requirements, performance benchmarks, and scalability challenges

• Mentor junior engineers and establish quality engineering best practices across the organization

• Partner with product leadership to establish quality gates and metrics that drive continuous improvement

• Collaborate with incident response teams for critical production issues and implement systematic approaches to prevent recurrence

• Drive innovation by researching and implementing cutting-edge tools and methodologies in test automation

• Collaborate with architecture teams to ensure testability is built into system design

• Establish technical standards for quality automation code and provide code review leadership

• Influence product roadmap decisions through data-driven quality insights and risk analysis

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of software engineering experience with significant focus on quality automation and tooling

• Expert-level programming skills in at least one major language (Java, Python, or JavaScript) with strong knowledge of others

• Demonstrated experience architecting and implementing test automation frameworks at scale

• Deep understanding of CI/CD systems and experience optimizing quality gates within deployment pipelines

• Extensive experience with container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes in test/production environments

• Proven expertise with one or more cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and infrastructure-as-code practices

• Strong background in performance engineering, load testing, and distributed systems troubleshooting

• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring junior engineers

• Advanced knowledge of microservice testing strategies and service virtualization

• Track record of improving test execution efficiency and reliability through innovative approaches

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing in production environments

• Background in implementing observability solutions that enhance quality monitoring

• Contributions to open-source testing tools or frameworks

• Experience with ML/AI testing approaches and data validation frameworks

• Knowledge of security testing methodologies and tools

• Experience building custom testing tools that address unique organizational needs

Location & Benefits

Work Location

• Bengaluru, India

What You Will Have at Harness

• Experience building a transformative product

• End-to-end ownership of your projects

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefit

• Flexible work schedule

• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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